Cartoon Protesters: 'God Bless Hitler'
Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006 2:16 p.m. EST

The Mohammed cartoon protest took a new direction in Pakistan this week, as demonstrators took to the streets in Islamabad brandishing signs that proclaimed: "God Bless Hitler."

Tens of thousands of people took part in the latest round of protests, which took place throughout Pakistan - with gunfire and rioting erupting in some precincts. By midweek, three people, including an 8-year-old boy, had been killed.

Pakistani intelligence officials told the Associated Press that members of outlawed Islamic militant groups had joined the protests, and were inciting violence to undermine the government of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Story